Improvement in shirts



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT OLUETT, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,880, dated November17, 1874; application filed August 10, 1874.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT OLUETT, of

the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer,

ing drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which forma part of this specification.

The object of my invention is, first, to avoid the folding in of theedges of the bosom, and the raw edges and loose threads thereof, whichdisfigure the bosom-when so folded in; second, to stay the bosom,rendering it firmer in itself, and less likely to runiple or break 5third, to avoid wrinkling of the bosom by the unevenness or fulling upof any one of the layers composing the bosom in any part thereof, eachand all of these three features having reference to the preparatorystages of manufacture, but to be completed in the bosom as attached tothe shirt.

its construction consists in preparing and fixing the two or more layersin place smooth ly in relation to each other, and then binding the edgewith a folded strip of cloth like the bosom-front, out bias (ordiagonally) or straight from the piece, so as to turn the curves of thebosom without tendency to gather on one side, and so as to suit round,square, or any other shaped bosom, this binding extending entirelyaround the bosom, (except at the neck and yoke,) and holding the partsfirmly in place by a line of stitches be: fore the bosom is inserted inor placed on and attached to the body of the shirt, and finallyattaching the bosom so prepared to the shirtbody, in the mannerhereinafter shown. The invention consists in the shirt-bosom, or shirtand bosom, so constructed, and not in the bosom alone.

Where the bosom is inserted in the shirt a back layer of the bosom isleft outside of the binding, and free. As to the rest, and where it isplaced on and attached to the shirt-body,

the seam is made through all-the binding on both sides and the layers ofcloth between, as well as the shirt-body.

The drawing contains fourteen figures.

Figure l is a front view of the upper part of a shirt, in which thebosom proper is secured to and over the shirt-body front, as illustratedin the following figures, to and including Fig. 7. Fig. 2 is a sectionalview out on the line U U. Fig. 3 is a sectional view out on the line VV. Fig. 4is a plan or pattern view of the shirt-body shown in Fig. 1.Fig. 5 is a front View of the bosom before being secured to the body, asin Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a sectional view out on the line U U, Fig. 5; Fig.7, the same on line V V, Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is a front view, in which thebosom proper is inserted in the shirt-body front, as illustrated in theremaining figures to Fig. 14, inclusive. Fig. 9 is a sectional view cuton the line X X, Fig. 8; Fig. 10, the same on line Y Y, Fig. 8. Fig. 11is a plan or pattern view of the shirt-body cut out for the insertion ofthe bosom. Fig. 12 is a front view of the bosom for insertion. Fig. 13is a sectional view on the line X X, Fig. 12; Fig. '14, the same on theline Z Z, Fig. 12.

Figs.5, 6, and 7 show one line of stitches passing through the bias orstraight out binding B and bosom-layers B and L. In these as in all thefigures, S indicates the location of a stitch and an inside line ofstitching. This bosom is composed of two layers, and is secured on theshirt-body F, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, by the outside line ofstitches 0.

Figs. 12, 13, and 14 show one line of stitches, S, passing through thebias or straight out binding B and bosom-layers B and L, the back layerB not being stitched to the rest by such line of stitches.

Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11 show how this form of bosom is inserted in theshirt-body F-first, by a line of stitching attaching the back layer B tothe shirt-body F at the bend shown on the under side of Fig. 10; and,second, by the outside line of stitches 0, shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 10.

The bosoms so made have each layer evenly laid over the other, and soheld in place during the final process of insertion or attachment, asthe case may be, and they remain equally even and smooth after the shirtand bosom are complete.

The thicknesses of cloth in the bosom may be varied and either increasedor reduced.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination with a shirt-body, ashirtbosom bound on the outer edge with a folded and stitched binding,and attached to the shirt body by a separate line of stitching throughsuch binding.

2. The shirt-bosom S, composed of two or more thicknesses of cloth, B L,bound on the outer edge with the binding B, and secured to theshirtfront F by the line of stitching 0.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention, I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBT. OLUETT. Witnesses:

R. (J. BULL, F. 13. WEEKS.

